BACKGROUND: This study describes the lessons learnt from using a novel method for teaching communication skills to
second-year medical/dental students.
METHODS: Medical and drama teachers designed this action research ...

Munro, Marth; Coetzee, Marie-Heleen(Centre for Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2007)

The authors explored the ways in which the changes in the South African educational dispensation impact on the work of educators within a Drama department in the Higher Education and Training band (HET) in South Africa. ...

Coetzee, Marie-Heleen(Centre for Theatre and Performance Studies,University of Stellenbosch, 2009)

This paper investigates the ways in which the use of performative inquiry can shift notions of knowledge as situated to knowledge as experiential, embodied and an in situ encounter in the domain of performance studies. ...

Coetzee, Marie-Heleen; Munro, Marth(Centre for Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2010)

While the general contours of virtuosity are the same across media, every sacred monster is unique; every technique organizes its own monstrosity, and every community engages its virtuoso monsters on its own terms (Hamera ...

This paper positions Community Theatre as an agency for development and education based on the educational
principles of Freire and Boal’s Theatre for Development. The paper argues that Appreciative Inquiry can enrich ...

Van Heerden, Ariana; Munro, Marth(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)

This article reports on a mixed method study of painting and drawing activities of professional
artists utilizing semi-structured interviews documenting affective states. The experiential data
was supplemented with ...

This paper considers several examples of creative work specifically situated in the city of Venice as an
amplification of otherness made apparent through the city’s metonymy of the physical body. This is
an attempt to ...

This paper situates a critical and reflexive reference to my own recent explorations with the body and
the Monument in two video performance works: ‘Muscle and Jew and the Voortrekker Monument’
(2012) and ‘Muscle Jew and ...

The teaching of classical Greek dramas is integral to drama education at the
University of Pretoria. In the past few years these dramas increasingly faced the
danger of becoming ‘foreign’/irrelevant to modern day students. ...

This article investigates the way the methodology of process drama, and specifically
the convention of dramatised poetry, can enhance the anger-management skills of
adolescent girls. The article presents findings from a ...

This study investigates identity construction in online (virtual) and offline (visceral)
spaces. Throughout the emphasis is on gay male identity construction. Specifically, the
article explores how performance theory can ...

Van Heerden, Ariana; Munro, Marth(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

In general the production and appreciation of visual art has been considered to be a cultural phenomenon,
but lately the possibility of a biological, leading on to a neuroscientific basis, for making art has
been considered. ...

In 2008, Johannesburg, and the rest of South Africa, began experiencing an energy crisis, resulting in blackouts
pointing to a colloquialism now known as ‘load shedding’. This occurred during a collaborative performance ...

Management in a client-centred industry faces complex interaction
within the company structures as well as with several client-related
communications. Such interactions span a broad range of skills that
extend beyond ...

In this article we argue that the entry-level theatre voice teacher is confronted in the
theatre voice class with a ‘dichotomized voice’ in training, where the physiological
and the socio-cultural interweave brain/mind/body ...

This article argues that Steve Hofmeyr’s Afrikaner identity, an identity he performs across various
media platforms, including a selection of feature length Afrikaans films, is a paradoxical hybrid
of Afrikaner exceptionalism ...

This article examines how gender identity is represented in a filmic adaptation of Shakespeare’s play text Romeo and
Juliet within South Africa’s postcolonial context, thereby positioning identity politics as crucial in ...

Sonny Venkatrathnam’s ‘Robben Island Bible’ or ‘Robben Island Shakespeare’ has captured the public
imagination. The book is a tangible marker of resistance and, for many, an affirmation of the relevance
of Shakespeare ...

This article explores the ways in which playback theatre was used to interrogate the views of adolescents on their social context(s) and establish what the personal and dominant discourses operating in their views were. ...